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66. Arulmigu Harilakshmi Thayar samedha Sri Hari Temple, Thiru naimisarannyam

Mulavar   Sri Devarajan, Sri Hari
Utsavar    
Thayar   Harilakshmi,Pundareekavalli
Kshethram    
Pose & Direction   Standing Pose facing East
Theertham   Gomathi River, Chakkra Theertham, Nemi Theertham
Vimanam   Sri Hari Vimanam
Sthala Vruksham   Tapovanam
Paadiyavar   Thirumangai Alwar
Travel Base   Lucknow
Nearest Railway Station   Naimisarannyam

Location

Naimisaranyam is located at the junction of the roads from Sitapur and Khairabad, 20 miles from Sitapur and 24 miles from the Sandila railway station. 45 miles north of Lucknow in Uttarpradesh. Naimisaranya is also known as "Nimsar" or "Nimkhar" and is located on the left bank of the river Gomati.

History

In the old age, all the Maha Rishis along with Sownakar went towards Brahma devan and asked him which is the best place suited for doing Yagam and tapas. As the answer, Brahma devan took a dharbai grasss and made it as a wheel shape and rolled the dharbai grass. Brahma devar said after he rolls the grass, the place where it stopped is said to be the ideal place for doing tapas and yagam. He rolled the wheel and it stops at a particular place in the Earth and that place is said to the place which is called as "Naimisaranyam". Nemi means chakkaram and Naimisam means the place where the chakkaram landed. Aaranyam means forest. Since Nemi, the Chakkaram which landed on Aaranya the forest, the sthalam is called as "Naimisaranyam". This Naimisaranyam is said to be the place where lots of Rishis and lots of yogis have done tapas and dhyanam and have explained the meaning of old puranas and vedams. The Emperumaan gives his seva as in the form of the forest and is found in whole of the forest. This sthala emperumaan, gives his seva with the name as "Sri Hari" along with Sri Hari lakshmi and gave his prathyaksham to Devendran, Sudharman, Devarishis, Soodhapuranikars and Vedavyasar. Once, Balaramar, the brother of Sri Krishnar came to this sthalam. At that time, Soodhar was very busy creating puranas. He didnt notice the arrival of Balaramar. On seeing this, Balaramar got angry and hit him. He got into sin by comitting this. To get out the sin, he went to lots of Punya kshetras for an year and finally he came back to this kshetram and help the rishis and yogis, who were suffering from the frightening of a arakkan (Demon) by named "Vilvalan". All the rishis and yogis thanked Balaramar for making them to perform tapas in peace to reach the Emperumaan. Gayasooran, an arakkan did tapas in this sthalam. Sriman Narayanan gave his seva to him as he was fulfilled by his tapas. Sriman Narayanan asked him what varam he wants as a result of complete tapas. But, Gayasooran answered the Almighty, that he didnt want any varam from him and he was so strong powerful than Sriman Narayanan. On hearing this, Sriman Narayanan send his chakra to kill the asuran and his body was cut into 3 parts. The three parts are the Siro Gaya, (the head part), the Nambi Gaya (the middle part) and the Charana Gaya (the foot part). This sthalam, the Naimisaranyam is said to be the Nabhi Gaya. The Gaya Kshetram is said to be the Charana Gaya and Badri is said to be Siro Gaya. Offering prayers to forefathers in all these three sthalams is said to be so greatful.

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